The Course
To sustain your career in the sound industry we believe being a multi-skilled practitioner is a necessity. So, whether you see your future in recorded sound, live sound or postproduction, we help you develop skills in all of these areas.
We also equip you to be adaptable and teach you in such a way that you understand why you are doing things as well as what to do. It is only by having this strong theoretical base, allied to practice that you can ensure that you can adapt to technical change as it happens.
Finally, although driven by technology, the industry is about working with people – without them the technical tools have no value. We provide the environment, the people and the tools to learn all these things.
You also have 24/7 access to our studios during term-time.
Average places available: Up to 30 each year
Career prospects
We are proud of our graduate employment record. Sound Technology graduates are working in live sound and theatre sound design, recording studio engineering and production, audio systems design, radio production, sound for film and television and computer game audio. In addition, many of our graduates have set up their own successful companies in these areas.
Each year we conduct a survey of our alumni who graduated almost four years earlier to find out what they did after leaving us. You can see the results of the latest survey by clicking on the factsheet image:
The Graduates
Our Music and Sound Technology graduates have gone on to work alongside many world famous musicians. in the case of Sound Technology graduates, this is mostly working on their albums in recording studios or on their live sound on tour.
The list of artists they have worked with covers just about every style of music and includes Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Madonna, KT Tunstall, Beyoncé, Girls Aloud, Simon Webbe, Guns N’ Roses, Daniel Beddingfield, Eliza Doolittle, Atomic Kitten, Stephen Fretwell, Sheryl Crow, KD Lang, Death Cab for Cutie, Take That, John Martyn, Paul McCartney, AC/DC and Jools Holland, to name but a few.
As well as working in recording studios or in live sounds with bands, Sound Technology graduates also go on to work in post-production sound for film and TV.
One of our graduates has worked in sound editing on a number of the Harry Potter films, and others have credits on film and TV shows such as Hot Fuzz, Ashes To Ashes and In Bruges.
Others are pursuing careers in sound in the theatre - such as Head of Sound for Matthew Bourne’s international tour of Edward Scissorhands, or No.1 sound operators for musicals such as Evita and The Sound of Music. Others are carving out successful careers as games audio specialists for companies such as Codemaster and Electronic Arts.